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Site name | Weymouth 20, Nottington Barrow |
Site number | 759 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4160 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a probably primary cremation accompanied by fragments of a bronze dagger probably in a sheath when found. Beneath the cremation and separated from it by a thin layer of clay were the remains of a funeral pyre; above the cremation was a large mass of carbonised wood. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 668 |
Y coordinate | 824 |
Bibliographic source | Grinsell 1959 |
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